(Nanowerk News) In a first, a dye-sensitized photocatalyst that facilitates the most efficient solar water splitting activity recorded to date (for similar catalysts) has been optimized by researchers ...

Researchers in Japan have discovered a new photocatalyst, Sn3O4, which facilitates the production of hydrogen fuel from water, using sunlight as an energy source. Technology that allows the direct ...

Clean renewable energy can be produced by photocatalytically splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with solar energy. Most of the conventionally developed water-splitting photocatalysts, however, ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Tokyo have achieved a solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion efficiency of 1.1% using particulate photocatalyst sheets developed by the research group ...

Japanese researchers have developed a new way to improve water splitting, while South Korea has completed its largest hydrogen production complex. Scotland and England have announced new hydrogen ...

Inexpensive water-splitting catalysts could lower the costs of generating hydrogen for fuel cells. Towards that end, scientists in England now have integrated a stable, low-cost organic catalyst into ...

University of Michigan researchers developed a new photocatalytic water splitting system that is reportedly able to reach a 9.2% solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency. The proposed system uses the higher ...

As both global energy consumption and concerns over environmental contamination continue to increase, it is imperative to develop renewable energy resources that neither rely on fossil fuels nor emit ...

A comprehensive look at doping photocatalysts in water splitting under visible light is presented. Doping to regulate the band structure of Bi-based composite oxides achieves overall water splitting.

A research team has developed a new method to accelerate the discovery of affordable, stable materials that support clean hydrogen production. Their approach could help make hydrogen—a promising clean ...